Why do we still use IDENTD?

Posted by Cliff on Monday December 9, 2002 @12:26AM from the I've-been-wondering-the-same-thing dept.

Wakko Warner asks: "So anyway, I was on IRC the other day (as I am often wont to do), and, as I was being banned from the network for not running 'identd', I thought to myself: 'Why do we still use this???' Can anyone come up with a valid reason why, in 2002, ident is still considered by some people to be a necessary component of the Internet? Most people use Windows for everything, and Windows has no identity services. Most UNIX folks I know disable it for security reasons. So, why do people still insist we run it in order to connect to their network? Is it still 1993 in some part of the world?"

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Dude, [you're] vs. [youre] vs [your] by Anonymous Coward · 2002-12-09 01:56 · Score: 0, Offtopic

the word "youre" is incorrect. If something is mine, then you could say it is yours. If I'm being a total jerk, you could say, "You are a jerk", or as the contraction, "You're a jerk."

Compose the sentence without contractions. "That is you are car" makes no sense, thus "that is you're car" makes equally no sense.

There's also "yore", but that is used in discussing things long before either of us was born, in the time of yore.